Jordan Thompson tops Matteo Arnaldi 7-5 6-2 7-6(5) in the 3rd round in New York on Saturday. Thompson will square off with Alex De Minaur in the 4th round. The match lasted 2 hours and 33 minutes. This run will match his most significant achievement in this event. Here you can see his history at this event.
Jordan added to his prize money $ 110,000 after conquering this match. He has already won $ 325,000 after this win. If he wins the next match, Jordan will add $ 205,000 to his earnings to get in total $ 530,000 in total.
Highlights Jordan Thompson vs. Matteo Arnaldi U.S. Open – New York
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
2h:33
At the end of the match, Jordan scored 111 points vs. the Italian’s 81.
Thompson
Jordan served pretty well to win 83% of the points (43/52) behind his first serve, and he won 67% points (26/39) on his second serve. Jordan was pretty good at converting 67% of the break points that he procured (4/6).
Arnaldi
On the other side, Arnaldi was effective at converting 50% of the break points that he procured points (1/2). Notwithstanding, that was not enough to win the match.
After this match, the head to head between Thompson and Arnaldi is 1-0 for Jordan.
Draw and next match H2H: Jordan Thompson vs. Alex De Minaur – stats
Thompson will fight against De Minaur in the 4th round.
This will be the 6th time that Jordan Thompson and Alex De Minaur square off. The head to head is 4-1 for De Minaur (see full H2H stats), 3-0 on hard.
The last time that they locked horns, De Minaur won 7-64 6-3 in the quarter in Sydney back in 2019.
Live score progression and stats
There was not much difference between the 2 players in this set with the exception of 1 break that Jordan clinched in the 11th game (6-5) just before finally winning the set (7-5).
The Australian was clinical in converting the only break point that he conquered in the 11th game (5-5 15-40). On the other side, the Italian wasn’t able to convert 1 break point in the 2nd game (1-1 40-A).
They contested 76 points. Thompson was the winner of the set after clinching 10 points more than the Italian (43-33). Jordan surrendered 11 points on serve (28-11). Regarding the other side of the net, Matteo conceded 15 points on serve (22-15).
Jordan in this set was more solid than Matteo and consequently he won 6-2 after breaking Arnaldi in the 5th (3-2) and in the 7th (5-2) game.
The Italian had no answers in the last 5 games of the set when the scoreline went from 1-2 to 6-2.
The Australian converted 50% of his break points (2/4). He had 4 break points opportunities in the 5th (2-2 30-40) and the 7th game (4-2 0-40, 15-40 and 30-40). On the other side, Jordan didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They played 42 points. The Australian won 16 more points than Matteo (29-13). The Australian was untouchable on serve to drop not even a single point during his serving games (16-0). In addition, on the other side, the Italian conceded 13 points on serve (13-13).
The Australian clinched the set after recovering from 1 break down. In fact, after conceding his serve in the 6th (2-4) game, The Australian broke back in the 7th (3-4) game before bringing the set at the breaker that he won 7-5.
Tiebreak
Jordan won 4 minibreaks in the 4th (1-3), 5th (2-3), 8th (4-4) and 12th (7-5) point. On the other side, Arnaldi won 3 minibreaks in the 2nd (2-0), 3rd (3-0) and 6th (4-2) point.
This was the tiebreak sequence: 0-1, 0-2, 0-3, 1-3, 2-3, 2-4, 3-4, 4-4, 4-5, 5-5, 6-5, 7-5
The Australian was clinical in converting the only break point that he conquered in the 7th game (2-4 30-40). Thompson saved 1 set point when he was trailing 4-5. Also, on the other side, Matteo was clinical in converting the only break point that he conquered in the 6th game (3-2 30-40).
They contested 74 points. The Australian conquered the set after winning 4 points more than the Italian (39-35). Jordan dropped 11 points on serve (26-11). on the other side of the court, Arnaldi conceded 13 points on serve (24-13).
Tennis Scores at the U.S. Open
- Jordan ThompsonThompson – Matteo ArnaldiArnaldi (7-5 6-2 7-65)
- Nuno BorgesBorges – Jakub MensikMensik (6-75 6-1 3-6 7-66 6-0)
- Daniil MedvedevMedvedev – Flavio CobolliCobolli (6-3 6-4 6-3)
- Jannik SinnerSinner – Christopher O ConnellO Connell (6-1 6-4 6-2)
- Tomas MachacMachac – David GoffinGoffin (6-3 6-1 6-2)
- Tommy PaulPaul – Gabriel DialloDiallo (6-75 6-3 6-1 7-63)
- Alex De MinaurDe Minaur – Daniel EvansEvans (6-3 6-74 6-0 6-0)
- Jack DraperDraper – Botic Van De ZandschulpVan De Zandschulp (6-3 6-4 6-2)
- Alexander ZverevZverev – Tomas Martin EtcheverryMartin Etcheverry (5-7 7-5 6-1 6-3)
- Casper RuudRuud – Juncheng ShangShang (6-71 3-6 6-0 6-3 6-1)
- Andrey RublevRublev – Jiri LeheckaLehecka (6-3 7-5 6-4)
- Brandon NakashimaNakashima – Lorenzo MusettiMusetti (6-2 3-6 6-3 7-64)
- Grigor DimitrovDimitrov – Tallon GriekspoorGriekspoor (6-3 6-3 6-1)
- Alexei PopyrinPopyrin – Novak DjokovicDjokovic (6-4 6-4 2-6 6-4)
- Frances TiafoeTiafoe – Ben SheltonShelton (4-6 7-5 6-75 6-4 6-3)
- Taylor FritzFritz – Francisco ComesanaComesana (6-3 6-4 6-2)
Upcoming matches
- Andrey RublevRublev – Grigor DimitrovDimitrov (4-3) – H2H details and stats
- Frances TiafoeTiafoe – Alexei PopyrinPopyrin (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Nuno BorgesBorges – Daniil MedvedevMedvedev (0-2) – H2H details and stats
- Casper RuudRuud – Taylor Harry FritzHarry Fritz (2-0) – H2H details and stats
- Alex De MinaurDe Minaur – Jordan ThompsonThompson (4-1) – H2H details and stats
- Jannik SinnerSinner – Tommy PaulPaul (2-1) – H2H details and stats
- Brandon NakashimaNakashima – Alexander ZverevZverev (0-2) – H2H details and stats
- Jack DraperDraper – Tomas MachacMachac (0-1) – H2H details and stats
